A. Technical

I am the technical officer of the CARMA research centre at the
University of Newcastle. My responsibilities include maintaining a
variety of
websites and mailing lists, managing CARMA's computing
facilities and overseeing the running of the Access Grid Room.

I assist with the day-to-day running of the centre by way of
liasing with other parts of the university, purchasing, creating websites for
research projects and conferences and advising staff on technical matters.

When time permits, I continue to pursue research projects, some of
which are listed in Section B.

The primary in-house systems that I have developed are an events
management system, which provides information for our website (in a variety
of guises) as well as a calendar
feed (along with a smaller but related news managment system), and an abstract submission system, allowing the saving, editing and submission
of abstracts for conferences, along with a customisable suite of editorial and reviewer
options, announcements and notifications. The latter was originally designed for the 2013 ANZIAM conference.

B. Research

New tests for equality of variance

Non-parametric Wald tests based on the differences of variances.
We have published results for two univariate samples and multiple
univariate samples, and are currently working on the two multivariate sample
case. Joint work with John Rayner. [62H15]

Infectious disease modelling

Looking at the effect of Wolbachia on the spread of
Dengue, and other explorations such as the putative influence of feminisation
on mosquito population dynamics. Joint work with Meksianis Ndii, Roslyn Hickson,
Katie Glass, Irene Hudson and the late Geoff Mercer. [92B99,37N25]

Polygons created by random chords

Q: what is the distribution of the area of polygons created when
a circle is dissected by random chords? [60D05]

Neural activity modelling

A neural model with signal-dependent refrectoriness, suitable
for realistic auditory inputs (eg. speech) in a cochlear implant
setting. Joint work with Robert Morse and Nigel Stocks. [60G35]